How to Create Image Quotes for Your Blog Posts #tutorial with #video

Today I am going to teach you what image quotes are, why you should use image quotes in your blog posts, how you can create image quotes for your blog posts, and how you can watermark your images.

You can do this all for free, too!

I also have created two video tutorials for you, so that you can see how easy it is to create an image quote using one of the more difficult sites, and also so that you can see how adjust the settings when watermarking your images. This might seem overwhelming at first, but I can assure you that you will get the hang of things. I did, and I’m not very technologically adept. If I can do this, you can, too!

Let’s begin.

What Are Image Quotes?

Image quotes, simply put, are images that contain quotes. Here are a few image quotes for you to sample, which I created.

Different Ways to Create Image Quotes

You can create image quotes easily using any image creator software, such as PicMonkey, Canva, Pixlr or Pixlr Express, Photoshop or Gimp, or any of the other 25+ online photo editors to create beautiful visual quotes.

7 Things to Remember When Using Image Quotes

1. Take credit for your image… somehow.

You can do this by adding your name or your URL to the image, either within the image itself or by adding a watermark to it. Watermark your images using a free online watermarking tool such as Batch Watermark Photos Online (which allows you to watermark 15 images at a time).

2. Make sure you provide attribution to the original speaker of the quote, even if that person is unknown. It’s only right to give credit where credit is due.

3. Choose your text colours and background colours wisely, to make your image stand out, or “pop.” Create your own, too, if you want! (I did this in the video below.)

4. Use easy-to-read fonts, and make them large enough to read, too.

5. Use a quote that is relevant to your post. If you are writing about success, use quotes that mention success.

7. If you are selling something, have your image link to the page where customers can make a purchase, rather than to a URL that has the words “content uploads” in it. Do this by editing your image and choosing the option “Link to Custom URL.”

Remember when I showed you how to customize your blog post images? Essentially, the steps are the same. After you have inserted your image in your post, click Edit, and then choose Link to Custom URL.

Here is a screenshot that shows you where and how to do this (highlighted in blue):

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Where to Find Quotes

There are numerous sites that you can use to find quotes. In fact, there are so many that they cannot be listed here!

This list could go on and on, as quotes are very popular! When I typed in “find quotes” into my Google search bar, there were 453 000 000 results. Sifting through millions of sites, the best list reference I found was Quotation Resources, which lists 41 websites you can use to find quotes.

Clearly, there are tons of resources for you to use. Finding quotes will not be a problem.

Two Video Tutorials

I like to challenge myself, and so I played around with QuotesCover.com a bit, to make a few image quotes. This is one of the most difficult places to create quotes at, and so I made a video tutorial for you to show you the steps.

In this video, I also show you how to create a custom background image for your quote, using PicMonkey.

Here is the video:

How to Watermark Images – Video Tutorial

Here is a video I made that shows you how to add a watermark to your images.

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Hi Lorraine, I love image quotes and have been using them on my blog for sometime now. I have been using PicMonkey exclusively, but I’ll certainly try Quotescover.com. I also appreciate the info on watermarking. Thanks for a great post.

Sorry for hopping in late for this one, but I had it bookmarked to come to later, so here I am 🙂

Yes, images can speak a 1000 words, and you know how much I love them, especially the picture quotes one. Just wish had more time to create my own. I do try, but they take a lot of time if you really look for perfection, so I usually take the ready-made ones for my blog, but when time’s there, make my own.

I usually work on Photoshop, or PicMonkey if that isn’t around, and now Canva too is there, though it limits the choices a little as of now. I usually create my own Watermark, haven’t used any site for it so far, and prefer them to be light and in the background – kind of there and yet not too loud and visible. I guess such images where the watermark isn’t too clear and bold are shared more on Pinterest as compared.

Harleena, I appreciate your visits here and your comments, too, and I know you were on break for the first half of January. I sure hope you enjoyed it!

You bring up a good point — images that have prominent watermarks are generally NOT shared as much on Pinterest because of the “advertising” aspect. People don’t like it when others are “in your face” and so that’s one of the reasons I don’t always watermark my images.

I don’t have Photoshop (nor do I know how to use it) but Canva and PicMonkey do me just fine. 😉

William, I’m glad you learned how to create these for yourself. I hope you use them on your blog. Seeing as how you’re a writer, I’m sure you’ll have no problem incorporating image quotes into your posts! 😉

Mi Muba, thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment. You’re absolutely right about image quotes being shared on social media as a contributing factor to online popularity. I think that’s why I love them so much!

Lorraine, I am going to be going over this again a few times and then try watermarking some of my images to begin with. I did tweet when asked above but did not use a hashtag (that’s a whole different learning thing), hope they’ll still be ok.

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